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List of events
Events from the year
1939 in
France.
Incumbents
Events
- 27 February – United Kingdom and France recognize
Franco's government in Spain.
- 17 June – Last public guillotining in France – murderer
Eugen Weidmann.
- 3 September – United Kingdom, France, New Zealand and Australia declare war on
Germany.
Sport
Births
- 1 February –
Claude François, singer-songwriter (died 1978)
- 29 March –
Roland Arnall, businessman and diplomat in the United States (died 2008)
- 3 April –
François de Roubaix,
film score composer (died 1975)
- 9 May –
Pierre Desproges,
humorist (died 1988)
- 24 June –
Brigitte Fontaine, singer, writer and poet
- 22 July –
Warda Al-Jazairia, born Warda Mohammed Ftouki, singer (died 2012 in Egypt)
- 31 July –
France Nuyen, actress
- 9 August –
Bulle Ogier, actress
- 30 September –
Jean-Marie Lehn, chemist, shared
Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987
- 6 November –
Maurice Bourgue (died 2023)
Deaths
See also
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